User:CononOfSamos

144px|thumb|right|Conon Lunar crater  When I heard the learn’d Astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;  When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars. ~ Walt Whitman 144px|thumb|right|Messier 99 in Constellation Coma Berenices Conon of Samos - Astronomer & Mathemetician Conon was born on the Greek island of Samos Court Astronomer to Ptolemy III Euergetes in Alexandria Named the Constellation Coma Berenices after Ptolemy's wife Berenice II Conon (possibly) died in Alexandria The Conon lunar crater was named in his honor Hermes is the Messenger of the Gods Hermes Trismegistus is a patron of Astrology and Alchemy Username CononOfSamos was created on English Wikipedia on October 17, 2009. CononOfSamos (talk) 07:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC) User CononOfSamos formerly edited on English Wikiquote as Archimedes. 144px|thumb|right|NGC 4565 in Constellation Coma Berenices